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I was hoping that'd be a Dan video. He has another one about how it's Rude to Suck at Warcraft, which I found enlightening on how things have changed in WoW

Quite good. Sans any real spoilers:

Space is a lot more accessible in the early game, and in space ~~no one can hear you scream ~~ there's a lot more complications than normal, including really turning factory planning and scaling on its head on one planet.

Really mixed it up, much more than the SE mod did (which was good, but just felt like scaling more than unique challenges)

Yeah, there's a weird implied statute of limitations type of thing with remains. Like thousands of years ago, we can learn so much and uncover history by looking at remains. But you don't learn much and it's weird and presumably illegal to dig up recent remains.

I dunno what that time limit is, but to me at least it feels like it exists and intuitively makes enough sense

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Wow, really well said. Extremely important that everyone reads this info above

Edit: thanks for the gold, kind stranger

Brewery process engineer here. The reasons beer doesn't need as strict of regulation in terms of food safety and in terms of labeling is twofold.

Part of that is because it's lobbied to keep it that way, because if you put numbers down they're not great (no surprise)

Part of it is because beer's pH and alcohol content makes it nearly impossible for human-harming-pathogens to grow. On the scale of danger for you from a food safety perspective, beer is low.

NA beer is full strength beer with the alcohol removed. It goes through the same kill steps and processes as normal beer. Alcohol removal can be done a few ways (RO, filtration, boiling) but is I think always or effectively always followed by pasteurization.

Not saying it should be beyond labelling, but that's the reasoning why it's not a high priority for labeling like food.

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I love re-deriving the train when people talk about autonomous cars/trucking and how they can already do the highway part easily

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Oh switching to metric is a great idea.

Denmark :)

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I have about a hundred hours in it. Here's some scattered thoughts:

–The devs clearly care a lot and it's a labor of love. They communicate well, provide updates, listen to feedback, engage with the community. They're lovely.

–the game has a fun series of mechanics, good visuals, good music, fun vibes. It's a bit.... Sandboxy, towards later in most runs. I don't know what to do with my settlement come cycle 12-15 (cycle is 12-20 days or so). I wish there was a little more of a goal for it, like scenarios

–good mod support and map making. People have made some dope maps for it

I'm gonna continue to revisit it as campaign/scenarios evolve, as mechanics are added, and as I want to get my beaver vibe on

Man, my parents were cool as shit about this. And I think it had really good consequences for me later on, like in college.

Sex was positively viewed, but strict about protection (rightly so), and drugs were described as a spectrum with weed being very low, and the scary drugs (heroine) being very scary. They were honest about wanting me to wait for drugs and booze till I was more adult, but let me have a few parties with friends where everyone crashed at their house. It was super fun, and very badass feeling. I got to college and was like .... Meh? On partying.

Definitely not the only way to go about it, but the honesty helped me weigh consequences of it all a bit better, I think.

Hi, someone from Asheville checking in. Absolutely devastating here, much like Erwin up the road.

Biltmore village

River arts district

I've never been in a hurricane before this but it was absolutely insane. We're so far inland, and so typically climate insulated. No one expected nearly this and it quickly overwhelmed everything we have. Just got soke cell back, I've heard potentially weeks for power for some and same on water.

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The dream? User swappable battery. I would gladly trade up for that

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Massive F1 fan here.

It's more of an engineering sport than a driving sport. Don't get me wrong– the drivers are absolutely top notch and do an incredible job and it's entertaining to watch. But since it's sooooo engineering and development based, you cars that perform different on different tracks (cuz of elevation, temperature, track design, surface).

It's pretty neat; worth a watch sometime!

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Man I'm in my mid 30s and really loving gaming more these days. Lots of independent shit that's had me hooked.

In the past few years I fell away from cars/motorcycles (building, racing, etc) and am loving sitting on the couch at home. It's a stark contrast and has been a lot of therapy time, but I did it for years while not enjoying it. I think my takeaway is leaning into what I want and away from what I don't

I stopped using reddit, I'm on my phone a lot less. It makes me less angry and more present, and I really like that. I also comment more, as many of you have said here.

I really miss Ask Historians. It'd send me down some lovely rabbit holes, get me reading books about niche topics I never knew I wanted to learn more about.

Fair enough, moving to Denmark!

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I had some chronic shoulder pain for years. Primary physician was like "yeah that sucks". 2 specialists were like "yeah, old collarbone injury I guess? Take Advil"

Years later, third specialist opinion found a missing ligament and did surgery.

Moral of the story is that you should get a few opinions here, maybe the first isn't right

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That was hilarious.

Also no way only Sacha baron Cohen is acting in this, right? Like a few others are in on this, surely

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I didn't even know that "BioShock Infinite good" was a hot take. I loved the story, and it's somewhat open ended nature. That's most of my friends' takes as well

Ayo

I hope she does. I don't think I'm ADHD but my partner was just diagnosed a few months ago. Now that we think about it it's not a surprise at all lol

It feels really nice to have more understanding and more context for both of us.

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Holy, I had no idea it didn't auto clear the cache. 6 gigs! Well, thanks for that Internet stranger

So excited and so overwhelmed.

We're moving from the US to Denmark soon. We just had a hurricane destroy our city. We are fine, thankfully, but our city is in bad shape. I also just had a decently big surgery a few weeks ago and my doctor's office is gone, so in the midst of all this I have to find a doctor. Just coincidental timing on all of it.

But it's net positive. I look forward to the future more than I dread the bad stuff.

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The (absolutely gutted) organization for requiring things like nutritional information is primarily responsible for keeping people safe in the foods they consume. Should it be on there? Probably. But on the scale of things to do it's so absurdly insanely low with so many horrific things ahead of it that it probably isn't gonna happen. Nevermind the fact that it's lobbied against pretty hard at the same time.

I think it probably should have nutritional and allergenic info required on it, but hearing the horror stories of my friends in food safety who go to plants that produce dangerous products with so little rules and oversight, I can't imagine thinking it's a good idea to take any amount of FDA time and attention away from that for things like beer.

Most big breweries have nutritional info on their site for their beers, fwiw.

Wow, $28k. That's wild! Is it arcade cabinets? Rare stuff?

From selling a fair few MTG cards for the last few decades, I'd say it really depends if you want it to be fast/easy or maximize profits.

Selling individual things (think eBay) will net a lot more, usually what price estimators use like Pricecharting. If you just wanna get out of it all, then a bulk purchase will net a lot less (think game store)

Hey, I'm one of those wishlisters!

I'm excited to see it. Your inspiration games are great (anything that says similar to Outer Wilds is going on the wishlist, basically), and I'm looking forward to your narrative. I haven't played the demo yet and was going to go in blind.

Cheers man, hope it is okay for your work life balance soon enough.

I'm relative sure SQL is a backronym for Sequel, and Microsoft had to change the name and wanted to keep the pronunciation. But ess Quall is my favorite so far, that's amazing

The original name SEQUEL, which is widely regarded as a pun on QUEL, the query language of Ingres,[14] was later changed to SQL (dropping the vowels) because "SEQUEL" was a trademark of the UK-based Hawker Siddeley Dynamics Engineering Limited company.[15] The label SQL later became the acronym for Structured Query Language.

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On mobile: long press on the comic itself

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As the other commenter said, there is a lot less dependence in Stockholm on cars than most places. Sweden has extremely low poverty rates anyway, and has pretty.good systems in place for the poor

I've been loving Liftoff. It's completely free and ad free, feels as good as any of the "big apps" to me

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We're moving away from the US, did you misread that or are you suggesting we should flee further than Europe?

I use VoidTools Everything for searching. It's absolutely lightning fast and super powerful.

The built in Windows search is such garbage

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That'd be pretty interesting if they could pull it off

Also subscribing for roller blade ball bearing facts

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If you go to a website in a browser it has ads, yeah?

Cuz FF with ublock origin prevents that on Android but i don't believe that's an option on iPhone

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The real way is a generator inlet, which is a male plug that's interlocked with the main. So the cord ends up being a normal male/female cord

As am I, this is delightful to discover

I'd watch that Numberphile video

Tell us a story!

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